Two blind men trail Jesus through a crowd, shout for mercy the whole way, and then walk straight into a house where they were never invited. That one scene in Matthew 9 exposes a question that still messes with us today: how can someone with “less” status, less certainty, and less welcome sometimes recognize Jesus more clearly than the people who think they have it all together? We start by pulling wisdom from Brother Lawrence and The Practice of the Presence of God, where prayer stops being...
May 19
47 min
Jesus doesn’t just give promises, He gives invitations and they often cost us our blueprint. We sit with a prophetic word spoken over Iowa that it will become a citadel of revival, then challenge the reflex to build an “infrastructure” that tries to control how God must fulfill it. What if the real goal isn’t getting the promise to happen faster, but becoming like Jesus while we wait? We also confront a grim idea we’ve heard in church culture: that the enemy is God’s primary tool to bring pe...
Apr 21
41 min
Adversity has a way of stripping everything down to what’s real. When the wind is loud, the stress is constant, and your emotions feel one step from spiraling, you find out fast what you’ve actually built your inner life on. We go after a hard but necessary question: how do we grow in hope while we’re living through things that feel hopeless? We define hope as the joyful expectation of good, and we talk about why that kind of hope can’t be borrowed from better circumstances. It has to be form...
Mar 18
39 min
What if fear isn’t your opponent to outmuscle but a signal that love hasn’t finished its work yet? We explore how the Trinity’s invitation draws us into the “great dance” and why awareness—not just language—determines whether we actually live inside that reality. Rather than staging a tired match between “faith vs fear,” we anchor in Galatians 5:6 and 1 John 4 to show how faith truly works only when love fuels it, and how perfect love casts out fear’s authority so boldness can rise. We get p...
Feb 18
44 min
Rain was a rumor for Noah, yet he still built an ark plank by plank. That’s our starting point to rethink how we build communities, gatherings, and personal lives that can carry presence without warping under pressure. We’re wrestling openly with pace, materials, and motive—because speed without seasoning makes joints fail. We share a working vision for The Resting Place as a gathering house where hungry people arrange life around Jesus. Locally, that looks like roots, family sanity, and a h...
Feb 10
1 hr 2 min
What if the most radical thing you could do for your faith isn’t to chase the next moment, but to grow roots where you stand? We open with a startling image of the wild prairie rose—small above ground, anchored by roots that plunge 10 to 20 feet deep—and let it reshape how we think about place, calling, and spiritual resilience. When the landscape looks gray and thin, depth adds color. Depth finds hidden aquifers. Depth makes beauty stand out where no one expects anything to grow. From there...
Jan 20
59 min
What if the place you feel most unable is the very doorway God chose for His kingdom to enter? We sit with Luke’s opening chapters and watch heaven subvert expectations: a barren couple called righteous, a priest silenced into faith, a teenage virgin overshadowed, and unpolished disciples commissioned to change the world. The theme running through every scene is startlingly consistent—power arrives where human strength runs out. We talk about the prayer Jesus taught and why daily bread is the...
Dec 17, 2025
59 min
What if the answer you’re praying for is already in your hands—just in seed form? We dive into Hebrews 11, 2 Corinthians 12, and Luke 1 to reframe faith, grace, and what favor actually feels like when it shows up in real life. The thread running through everything is simple but disruptive: God’s grace is sufficient, and most breakthroughs begin as small, easy-to-miss seeds that grow as we partner with them by faith. We start with faith as confidence in the unseen and move into the common tra...
Nov 18, 2025
53 min
What if the place you’re trying hardest to avoid—the gap between your limits and your calling—is exactly where God intends to meet you? We step straight into that tension, tracing how revelation often shows up where contradictions collide: hunger and lack, favor and fear, promise and process. We start with a striking picture from a Colorado trail—bighorn rams slamming together with the force of a car crash—to frame the lived experience of faith. From there, we revisit two blind men who someh...
Nov 11, 2025
53 min
What if faith isn’t just belief, but a firm persuasion grounded in who God is and how He feels about you? We dive into Hebrews 11 and Luke 1 to show why every gift from heaven arrives by grace through faith, and how that changes the way we face chaos, lack, and calling. You’ll hear why God’s laughter at the raging world isn’t indifference but confidence in the answer He’s already enthroned: Jesus. We explore the stories of Abel and Enoch, then shift to Mary’s breathtaking yes. Elizabeth’s li...
Oct 22, 2025
1 hr 4 min
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